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[Corona Club (San Francisco); Household Economics Section]

Corona Club Cook Book. [Compiled by members of the Corona Club.]

San Francisco: Rincon Publishing Company, 1910. Octavo, [6], 19-249, [13] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION, likely second printing. This printing lacks the initial 13 pages of ads, but the pagination begins at "19" leading us to believe that this issue followed that with ads in the front. A collection of attributed recipes written in narrative format, assembled to raise funds for a club house. Includes household tips and a section on.....

Price: $60.00

Item #7958 Fifty-two Sunday Dinners a book of recipes, arranged on a unique plan, combining...

[Cottolene - N.K. Fairbank Company]; Hiller, Elizabeth O

Fifty-two Sunday Dinners a book of recipes, arranged on a unique plan, combining helpful suggestions for appetizing, well-balanced menus, with all the newest ideas and latest discoveries in the preparation of tasty, wholesome cookery.

Chicago: N.K. Fairbank Co.; Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, 1915. Small octavo (21.5 x 14.5 cm.), 192 pages. Illustrated. Index. FIRST EDITION. Elizabeth O. Hiller was a prominent “lecturer on household science” and principal of the Chicago Domestic Science Training School. She was also a shill for the N.K. Fairbank Company, and the firm's cottonseed oil-based Cottolene products appear in many, if not most, of the recipes contained in Fifty-two.....

Price: $60.00

David, Elizabeth

The Baking of an English Loaf.

[London: Elizabeth David Ltd. Kitchen Utensils, 1969]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (14.7 x 11.8 cm.), [2], 24 pages. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION; originally issued in Queen magazine on December 4, 1968. A small but authoritative pamphlet on English bread baking from Elizabeth David, (1913-1992), the author of the later English Bread and Yeast Cookery (1977). This is one in the series of eight little books by David, mostly issued from her.....

Price: $90.00

Item #4266 The Improved Edition of The Perfect Cook: A Receipt Book, Containing Many Choice and...

[Indiana, Evansville]; Ladies of St. Paul's Episcopal Church

The Improved Edition of The Perfect Cook: A Receipt Book, Containing Many Choice and Carefully Tested Receipts of Practical Value to Every Housekeeper. Compiled and Sold by the Ladies of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Evansville, Ind.

Evansville, Ind. Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1885. Evansville, Ind.: [The Church; Printed by] Journal Co., Printers and Binders, 1885. [St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Evansville, Ind.); Ladies of the Church]. Octavo (21.5 x 14.75 cm.), 81 pages. Illustrated head- and tailpieces. Advertisements. Index. Cover title: The Perfect Cook. ~ Evident second edition (by inference). An early church cookbook offered by a community nestled within a leafy corner of the largest.....

Price: $600.00

Item #7935 The Mesa Workers' Cook Book. Compiled by the Leader of the Mesa Workers of the Mesa...

[Mesa Presbyterian Church (Pueblo, Colo.); The Mesa Workers]

The Mesa Workers' Cook Book. Compiled by the Leader of the Mesa Workers of the Mesa Presbyterian Church of Pueblo, Colorado.

Pueblo, Colo: The Mesa Workers; the Franklin Press Co., [1907]. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), [vi], 106 pages. Index. Publication date and edition statement derived from the foreword (page [v]). Stated second, enlarged edition. An ambitious church cookbook, with nearly five hundred recipes, intended “to raise funds for missions.” Most entries are credited, though some to monikers such as “Ormie”, “Fancy Cook”, or “A Friend.” In some cases an aspiration.....

Price: $100.00

Item #7262 What I Know; or the Economical Cook and House-Book, Hints on the Daily Duties of a...

Nicholson, Elizabeth

What I Know; or the Economical Cook and House-Book, Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper. Comprising nearly five hundred receipts for cooking, preserving, pickling, washing, ironing, gardening, plain and fancy needle-work, putting up of winter stores, and numerous other receipts, useful and needful in every well-regulated household. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged.

Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 48 N. Fourth Street; [electrotyped by George Charles, 9 Sansom Street], 1860. Small octavo (17.5 x 12 cm.), 160 pages. Index. Stated "fourth edition, revised and enlarged". Originally published Philadelphia, 1856 with the title What I Know, or Hints on the Daily Duties of a Housekeeper. One of a number of Quaker cookbooks to appear in the 1850s. The first section "The Economical Cook Book" (roughly two.....

Price: $500.00

[Shaker]; White, A.J

How the Shakers Cook, and the Noted Cooks of the Country.

New York: A.J. White, Druggist, [1888]. Duodecimo-sized booklet (15 x 9 cm.), 48 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Issued by the A.J. White company, this almanac advertised their products, which were licensed from, and in some cases, made by the Shakers. Though not indicated as an almanac on the cover, a calendar for 1889 is included. Features profiles of some of the country's top chefs of the time.....

Price: $90.00

[Trade catalogue – Refrigeration; Triumph Ice Machine Company (Cincinnati, Ohio)]

Triumph Ice Machine Company.

Cincinnati: C.J. Krehbiel & Co., 1899. Octavo in wrappers (19 x 12.5 cm.), 122 pages. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs and diagrams, numerous plates, some folding. FIRST EDITION. The second catalogue of Cincinnati's Triumph Ice Machine Company; the first catalogue, of 80 pages, was issued the prior year. A detailed and technical catalogue of the refrigeration and refrigerating machinery offered by the firm. Triumph's machinery was instrumental in growing the ability.....

Price: $500.00

[Typescript – musical book; Vall, Seymour; Greenburg, Dan]

How to Be a Jewish Mother. Based on the book by Dan Greenburg.

New York: Hart - Multi-copy printing, [1967]. Quarto-sized typescript play (28.5 x 22.5 cm.), 1-52, 2-31 pages, with some holograph corrections. The stage book based on the published book by the prolific American humorist Dan Greenburg. Originally published in 1964, Greenburg's work became the best-selling non-fiction book of 1965. The book and the subsequent musical dealt in familiar tropes of the Jewish woman, and has more recently been considered anti-Semitic.....

Price: $250.00